There’s a lot out there from folks trying and suggesting and selling ways for teachers to put their fingers in the dike holding back the allegedly inevitable AI tide.

The unending tide of AI used for stupid things just keeps on coming, and as widely predicted, the major accomplices are managers and employers, sucked in with promises that AI will make their work faster and easier and less have-to-deal-with-humans-y.

"Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?"

A Q&A with Marc Watkins, director of the AI Institute for Teachers.

Commentary on Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

To produce interesting writing, more is not necessarily better.

Students – and all manner of professionals – are tempted to outsource their thinking to AI, which threatens to undermine learning and credibility. A philosophy professor offers a solution.

AI-text-detectors can be evaded using simple tricks in academic writing, as repeatedly shown by folks like Dr Mike Perkins and Dr Mark A. Bassett. Advice for how to do this is abundant on YouTube, in videos aimed at students, viewed millions of times. Some videos are about how to ‘cheat’, but others have more positive titles like ‘how to study with AI’. Is there any point trying to stop students using AI to write essays? Or even any value to using asynchronous written essays as summative assessments?   New paper from the great Tomas Foltynek and some bloke called Phil Newton   https://rdcu.be/eKCko

Some things you can't be polite about.

Sometimes the best thing an LLM can do for you is misunderstand you

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.

Some common traits at institutions successfully meeting the challenge of teaching in today’s world.

Can we bring AI into the classroom and then ask it to step outside?

ChatGPT and other language models can be your new study buddies.

Scholars should log every step of the process of composition.

MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/AI Feedback in a Human-Centered Writing Process: The Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) ApproachAnna Mil...

Emily Bender and Alex Hanna have performed a huge public service by writing The AI Con, The book is insightful, incisive, and totally accessible.

A potentially ill-fated plan

With nearly half of all large law firms using AI in some way, the leadership at Michigan Law wanted to give AI aficionados a chance to show their skills.

The downsides of generative AI are growing like wildfire

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

Anxieties around AI and punctuation say a lot about academia, Joseph Mellors writes.

When it comes to AI in education, I've been seeing more and more conversations pop up about how we can prevent cheating, or even if that's possible anymore. But what if, in our focus on anti-cheating practices, we're missing something deeper? Something that has been on my mind even more than the iss

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Words should have meaning, accuracy should be valued, coherence should matter

How do we continue to support, empower and value students' relationships with text?

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